EU Biofuels -- Take the Poll

Via eurotrib, there's a poll on this Commission page about the EU's biofuels target. That target would be 10% of the fuel mix in 2020. So go on over and give the Commission your view. At 45,000 votes, the balance is 88.4% against.

The conditions under which a 10% goal might be sustainable do not exist, in my estimation. We would need radical new technologies that are unproven and seem less promising than investment in electrical or hydrogen. Or, alternatively, we would have to consume less than half the fuel we do now.

Otherwise, there's just not enough land and we need it for food, not fuel.

You can find longer take in this eurotrib diary of mine (part of ET's biofuels series).